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I want Mike Duncan's "Revolutions" but covering the Spanish Civil War, China, Cuba, Algeria, Vietnam, and the various anti-colonial struggles, then come back to France for May 1968, and a few others, maybe ending with the Zapatistas, Rojava/DAANES, the Gen Z uprisings, and maybe introducing Myanmar.

Monday's killing in Biddeford Maine
—at least the 11th that agents of the nation's anti-immigrant death squads have committed in the U.S. since the start of Donald Trump's crackdown
—has been met with public outrage,
but nothing indicates that the federal government thinks anything went wrong at all.
As is its custom, ICE told lies about its victim, calling Duršn Guerrero an "illegal alien" in its statement
and suggesting that agents slaught…

ICE Brings The Occupation Home | Defector
On Monday, in the city of Biddeford, Maine, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in an SUV rammed the passenger side of a civilian vehicle and, after the vehicle stopped, approached it with their guns drawn. The driver reportedly was 26-year-old Colombian national Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, who was not the target of the…

Trump consumer finance watchdog ends key civil rights-era anti-discrimination protection (Douglas Gillison/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-consumer-finance-watchdog-ends-key-civil-rights-era-anti-discrimination-2026-04-21/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p125#a260421p125

A low-slung building in Garden Grove California is the home of the Women's Civic Club, a community group that's been around since 1921.
Once a month for nearly 20 years, it was also home to meetings for the California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR),
one of the influential voices in the anti-immigrant movement during the 1990s and 2000s,
and one whose legacy is still felt today.
The group originally started as Citizens for Action Now,
headed by…

The OC Community Center That Launched a National Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
A small community center became the unlikely launching pad for multiple extremist movements that profoundly changed American politics.

The "civil death" of Hüseyin Doğru: The sanctioning of German journalist Hüseyin Dogru establishes a new precedent in the West's repression of anti-imperialist speech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hüseyin_Doğru

In the state department of past administrations,
how to respond to an incendiary event such as the murder of the British student Henry Nowak would have required deliberations, memos and meetings.
Given how it has roiled the UK and inflamed tensions over migration and race, the cautious diplomats at Foggy Bottom probably would have said nothing at all.
Now they tweet from the hip.
“Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational…

The Java Geek Weekly special "pneumonia during a heatwave" 🥵🤒 edition is out.
Get it before it's too late!
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/142/

The "civil death" of Hüseyin Doğru: The sanctioning of German journalist Hüseyin Dogru establishes a new precedent in the West's repression of anti-imperialist speech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hüseyin_Doğru

During World War II, the Polish-Jewish immigrant Arthur Szyk became America’s leading anti-Nazi artist.
His art was so effective that Adolf Hitler reportedly put a bounty on his head
while the US military declared him a “citizen-soldier” of the free world.
Szyk steadfastly fought for the rescue of European Jewry during the Holocaust, creating artworks like
De Profundis, which imagines Jesus sharing the suffering of countless lifeless Jews.
His civil rights art c…

Field staff at the federal agency that enforces civil rights laws in the workplace
say they are under intense pressure from leadership to bring in cases that fit the Trump administration’s priorities,
i.e. charges of discrimination against white men and charges of antisemitism on college campuses.
That pressure has led investigators and lawyers at the agency,
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
to focus its thin resources on pursuing and fast-tracking c…

EEOC Is Prioritizing Job Discrimination Cases That Match Trump’s Agenda
Field staff at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission say they are being pressured to bring politically charged cases, even with little evidence.